Security fix for Alfresco, new version 4.2.f released

Today, we have released Alfresco 4.2.f in Bitnami. This version includes a number of security issues. It is strongly recommended that you update your Alfresco website to the latest version. You can find more information at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/SA-6.

The latest version of Alfresco is already available in Bitnami Cloud Hosting and in Amazon and Azure clouds. We have also removed older versions of Alfresco from existing cloud repositories such as Amazon and Azure, to prevent end users from inadvertently launching insecure versions of this app.

Alfresco 4.2.d released!

We are happy to announce a new version of BitNami Alfresco Stack!

Alfresco is an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system featuring document management, web content management, collaboration management, records management and image management. Since the release of Alfresco 4.2.b nine months ago, the team at Alfresco has fixed a lot of bugs.

Alfresco 4.2.d also includes new features & improvements:

• + LightTheme: A lighter looking, more modern UI experience
• + Improved and redesigned Share header component: Includes access to the new application areas.
• + Simplified Document Library Toolbar
• + Addition of a Filmstrip view that enables rapid viewing of large thumbnails for media files directly from the Gallery View
• + And much more! Details are available on Alfresco's Engineering blog

Installers, virtual machines and cloud images for both Windows Azure and Amazon are already available courtesy of your friendly, neighborhood BitNami team.

New BitNami Alfresco 4.2.c released

We are happy to announce a new BitNami Alfresco Stack version: 4.2.c. BitNami Alfresco provides all-in-one free native installers, virtual machines and Amazon Cloud Images that simplify Alfresco installation. 

In addition to the stacks, we also simplify hosting and management of Alfresco in the cloud with our BitNami Cloud Hosting one-click deployment service. Sign up for our free developer plan to check it out.

This version contains the following components:

• Alfresco 4.2.c
• JDK 1.7.0_09
• Apache Tomcat 7.0.33
• LibreOffice 3.5.4

Enjoy! 

Alfresco administrator dashboard

LibreOffice document viewer

New BitNami Alfresco 4.2 released

We are happy to announce a new BitNami Alfresco Stack version: 4.2.a. BitNami Alfresco provides all-in-one free native installers, virtual machines and Amazon Cloud Images that simplify Alfresco installation. 

In addition to this, we also provide simplified deployment and management of Alfresco in the cloud with BitNami Cloud Hosting. Sign up for our free developer plan to check it out!

This version upgrades the following components:

• Alfresco 4.2.a
• JDK 1.7.0_07
• Apache Tomcat 7.0.32
• LibreOffice 3.5.4

Alfresco admin panel

Alfresco repository

BitNami Makes it Easy to Try Infoworld's BOSSIE-Award Winning Apps

At BitNami, we carefully select what we believe to be the best open source applications across a range of categories, so you know that any app that you get from BitNami will be of the highest quality. It seems that Infoworld agrees with our selections - out of 25 applications selected for the 2012 Infoworld Bossie Awards (Best of Open Source Software,) 10 are available on BitNami and an 11th is already in the works!

We would like to congratulate the teams building the following BitNami-packaged applications for earning Bossie Awards:

• WordPress
• Joomla!
• Drupal
• Typo3
• Alfresco
• Gallery
• SugarCRM
• Magento
• Spree
• Liferay

As with all BitNami Stacks, all of the above applications are available free of charge as native installers, virtual appliances (VMs) and AMIs for the Amazon Cloud. In particular, the VMs and AMIs make it incredibly easy to test these best-of-breed applications in minutes without actually installing them in your system. Even if you choose to use the native installers, you will see that they are completely self-contained and install all of their dependencies in their own directory, so they won't interfere with other software installed on your system.

Do you agree with Infoworld's list? If you think there is a great open source business application that isn't available in the BitNami library, let us know in the comments.

BitNami Customer Spotlight: Promethius Consulting

We are often asked about how people use BitNami Cloud Hosting. As with the cloud in general, there are a huge variety of use cases and our customer base is incredibly diverse - ranging from Fortune 500s to universities to solutions providers who rely on BitNami Cloud Hosting to host applications for their clients. This will be the first in a series of posts that will highlight a few BitNami Cloud Hosting customers and explain how they are using the platform to save time, money and do things that they couldn't do before they had BitNami and cloud computing.

BitNami Customer Spotlight: Promethius Consulting

Promethius Consulting provides network maintenance and support as well as website development and application hosting services to small and medium-sized businesses. Alfresco is one of several applications for which Promethius provides custom development and hosting services. Initially, Promethius was hosting Alfresco on internal servers with a multi-tenant setup, but the company was unhappy with the performance and lack of flexibility that approach provided.

After evaluating several options, Promethius came to the conclusion that running their servers on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform (AWS) would give them the best combination of performance and flexibility. Promethius chose BitNami Cloud Hosting to automate and facilitate the deployment and management of their Alfresco servers on the AWS cloud.

Aaron Toops, Director of Managed Services for Promethius, says they chose BitNami because "We save time and money, so we can focus our development team on making our product better for the customer instead of manually managing and deploying instances. " Promethius takes advantage of BitNami Cloud Hosting's one-click deployment process, automated backups, monitoring and management tools to speed up their development and deployment processes, allowing them to deliver solutions more quickly to customers while reducing costs. One feature that Promethius finds especially useful is the ability to clone servers across different AWS accounts. This allows them to use a "gold image" - a version of BitNami's Alfresco application that includes their own customizations and improvements - to deploy new servers for clients on separate AWS accounts in one click.

Mr. Toops also appreciates the support he gets from the BitNami team, commenting that "BitNami has been a great partner, actively listening and responding to our needs as a customer. Their support is simply outstanding, attentive, timely, and vested in fixing any issues we encounter. "

With BitNami Cloud Hosting and AWS, Promethius has been able to build out a new line of business around the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management System without any capital expenditure. BitNami's automated deployment process saves Promethius valuable development time, allowing them to deliver solutions more quickly and efficiently to their growing customer base.

A downloadable PDF of the complete case study is also available.